In my experience, the critical key to weight loss/maintenance is consistent logging. That can be a daily tally in your head, a phone app, paper, whatever. But i

In my experience, the critical key to weight loss/maintenance is consistent logging. That can be a daily tally in your head, a phone app, paper, whatever. But it must be consistent. Whether you log calories, "points", and/or nutrients is less critical, but if you're just logging calories, you'd better have some other mechanism for maintaining some nutritional balance.